Language analysis course: sentences

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Would you close the door, please? is ...
1. a question form functioning as an interrogative
2. an interrogative form with an imperative function
3. a statement functioning as an imperative
4. an imperative form with an interrogative function
This is my house. is ...
1. a compound sentence
2. a compound-complex sentence
3. a simple sentence
4. a complex sentence
This is my house but you are leaving it now. is ...
1. a complex sentence
2. a simple sentence
3. a compound-complex sentence
4. a compound sentence
You drove home after drinking so much, did you? (with the emphasis on 'drove' and falling intonation at the end) is ...
1. a statement with a positive tag usually functioning as an imperative
2. a positive statement with a positive tag usually functioning as an interrogative
3. a positive statement with a positive tag usually functioning as a criticism
4. a positive statement with a negative tag usually functioning as a criticism
This is my house and you are leaving it now. is ...
1. a compound sentence
2. a complex sentence
3. a simple sentence
4. a compound-complex sentence
A sentence is usually defined as having ...
1. a subject and a finite verb.
2. a noun and a verb
3. a subject and non-finite verb
4. a subject and an object
This is my house although you are leaving it now and you are never coming back. is ...
1. a simple sentence
2. a compound-complex sentence
3. a complex sentence
4. a compound sentence